Sentence examples for was cast down from inspiring English sources

As the Islamic scholar Ibn Abbas, cousin of Prophet Muhammad, recounts: Adam was cast down in India and Eve in Jeddah.

I listened to him when he was cast down and meek — when, as he used to say, he felt so low he had to reach up to touch bottom — and I listened to him when he was in moods of incoherent exaltation.

That would be reward enough for many bankers, but not for the man described by Fortune last year as "the toughest guy on Wall Street" and included by Time in its list of the world's 100 most influential people.Having reached the summit of financial services a decade ago at Citigroup, as Tenzing to Sandy Weill's Hillary, Mr Dimon fell out with his mentor and was cast down the mountain.

Other sculptures were a large cross, which fell in an earthquake in 561 or 562; a Victory, which was cast down in the reign of Michael III; and a crowned Fortune of the City.

Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, "Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of 'crazy', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather".

Both were cast down and depressed.

Her eyes were "cast down," in Judge Hughes's phrase.

They are cast down by plots and ill-judged broadcast interviews.

The furrows are briefly indicated on the brow, the eyes are cast down and the lips are open in lamentation.

I wonder if he will be surprised by who cheers his message, and who is cast down by it.

These "mystery ships" were intended to lure U-boats near — whereupon fake plywood bulkheads would be cast down, revealing bristling armaments.